Cult leader jailed for sex assault on girl

By Geesche Jacobsen
October 14, 2005 – 12:10PM

Religious cult leader William “Little Pebble” Kamm has been jailed for up to five years for sexually assaulting a girl.

He will serve a minimum of three and a half years after being found guilty on four counts of aggravated indecent assault and aggravated sexual assault of the 15-year-old girl – offences dating from 1993.

Kamm, 55, who claimed direct communication with the Virgin Mary, emerged 22 years ago as a “seer” in a worldwide Mary-worship cult and established a community of followers at Cambewarra on the South Coast.

His three-week trial in the Downing Centre heard how he had selected the girl, when she was 13, to be one of his “queens” .

The girl has said she was thrilled because of the belief she and her family had in Kamm.

He also persuaded her she was in a “mystical marriage” and had various dealings, including digital penetration in a car.

The Crown produced a series of lurid love letters, including one from July, 1993, saying: “I am not pressing you in any way to make love because there is plenty of time and you say you must get to know me better to develop this love.”

The girl, who has since married and had children, left the commune in 1994 but returned of her own free will.

The girl’s mother saw some of the letters in 1998 and the girl went to a sexual assault counsellor. A complaint was made to the police in August 2002, after the girl had liaised with Channel Seven and other media.